Southern New Hampshire University PSY 310 Criminal Data Worksheet
Instruc ons: Respond to PART I and PART II below and then resubmit this worksheet with your responses.
PART I
Instruc ons: Respond to the ques ons below.
1. Review the Uniform Crime Reporng (UCR) website. What type of criminal data can you gather from this website? While exploring the UCR website, I learned that is easy to navigate and one can find the information they are looking for easily as well. The data presented on the website is classified by state, gender of assailant, and types of crimes committed. Users also has access to several databases such as the National Incident- Based Reporting System, Law Enforcement Killed and Assaulted, Law Enforcement Suicide Data, and Hate Crime Statistics.
2. Using the Criminal Data Guide document as a guide, what do you no ce about the informa on that you should ask about? Where should you look for this informa on? The UCR website is relatively easy to navigate. The user is able to search an incident or assailant by state, gender, or classification of crime. When investigating a crime it is important to ask for a description of the assailant such as gender, race, ethnicity, height, hair color/length, any distinguishing marks and/or tattoos. We should also look for how the suspect chose his/her victim and when and where the crime occurred. Using the NCIC explorer of the UCR, can help identify, during a traffic stop or an incident were an officer has a reason for suspicion, if a suspect has a warrant or is a fugitive of the law.
3. Is there a typical pro le for terrorists? Explain.
According the Executive Risk Assessment (1979), the typical terrorist comes from a wealthy, upper-class family and are males between the ages 22-25. They are usually unmarried and have university training in common educational backgrounds such as social sciences, law, and journalism.
PART II
Instruc ons: Read through the scenario and respond to the ques ons below.
Lisa is accused of luring a group of men into a park where they are a acked by a criminal street gang She is also a gang member and this is part of her ini a on. She had a very strict upbringing and was physically abused by her older brother and father growing up. At age 13, she befriended some gang members who let her hang around with them. She started skipping school and commi ng pe y crimes
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such as the and burglary. Her gang got into a ght with a rival gang and she was injured, requiring s tches and x-rays. A police report was led, although no charges were brought against her.
Using the Criminal Data Guide document as a guide, respond to the following:
1. What pieces of informa on are important for you to gather speci cally from the scenario above? The pieces of information that are important to gather is the details of the abu